Diana Bossio
Biographic Data
| ID | 287418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Bossio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Bossio |
| SIGNATURE | BOSSIO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swinburne University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5019-7118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 197 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Taking Care Online
Who Really Leads? A Qualitative Exploration of Gender Equity in Leadership of Australian Newsrooms
While recent research shows that women’s leadership in Australian newsrooms has grown, we have little understanding of how this change may have impacted career opportunities for women, or the newsroom more broadly. We draw from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with editorial leaders in newsrooms across Australia to understand how editorial leaders perceive the impact of women’s leadership on newsrooms. We find that Australian newsrooms have t…
From Individual Disconnection to Collective Practices for Journalists’ Wellbeing
Journalists are increasingly experiencing the negative consequences of online news transformations, such as trolling and harassment, as well as audience distrust. Despite acute need, intra-organisational efforts to support journalists’ online wellbeing have so far been limited. More recently, research has explored how journalists have turned to individual practices of disconnection, such as blocking, muting, or small breaks from online media to m…
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code
In March 2021, Australia enacted the News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) legislation, which compels Google and Meta to pay for third-party news content on their platforms. To date, Australian newsrooms have made deals with both platforms totalling approximately AUD$200 million (US$126.4 million). The 1-year review of the Code has prompted questions about not just the legislation but also the lack of public detail about the deals made between news o…
The News Media Bargaining Code
The Australian News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) is the first successful legislative attempt to compel digital platforms to pay news media organisations for third party news content. This paper focuses on the NMBC after its first year to explore whether the Code was successful in meeting one of its publicly stated purposes; supporting public interest journalism. We argue that the Code delivered outcomes that met the ACCC's policy objectives aroun…
Communication research and teaching
This article presents responses from a range of Australian scholars on communication research and teaching in the context of a roundtable in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Australian Communication Association (ACA), the precursor organisation to the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA). Emphasising the range and diversity of approaches and epistemologies in this field, the roundtable invited a 'situated' respon…
Australia's News Media Bargaining Code and the global turn towards platform regulation
Governments across the world are struggling to address the market dominance of technology companies through increased regulation. The Australian Federal government found itself leading the world in platform regulation when, in 2021, it enacted the Australian News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code. The furore surrounding the introduction of the legislation, and Facebook's subsequent Australian ‘news ban’ exposed the limits of a…
Disconnection
This commentary considers the concept of 'disconnection' as a way to understand practices of contemporary digital journalism while advocating for consideration of disconnection as a necessary component of sustainable journalism
Not Their Fault, but Their Problem”
Journalists are increasingly reporting that online harassment has become a common feature of their working lives, contributing to experiences of fatigue, anxiety and disconnection from social media as well as their profession. Drawing on interviews with American newsworkers, this study finds at least three distinct forms of harassment: acute harassment such as generalized verbal abuse, chronic harassment occurring over time and often from the sam…
Not that old person
One of the issues limiting prevention of elder abuse in Australia is lack of a strong evidence base to target social drivers of abuse, particularly ageism. This evidence gap is exacerbated by social discourses that perpetuate negative representations of older age as a time of vulnerability and physical decline, often in opposition to people’s actual experience of ageing. This article presents findings of the ‘OPERA Project’, which used co-designe…
Reluctant selfies
This paper explores how older people’s reluctance to engage in social media’s more vernacular practices, such as selfie-taking and sharing, can be attributed to specific social barriers to online inclusion and participation. Drawing on empirical research conducted during social media-oriented digital literacy workshops with older people, we explore how ‘reluctant’ participation was linked to perceptions of social media cultures that did not match…
Journalists on Instagram
Research on journalists’ social media practices has not yet developed clear platform specificity; that is, how these practices might differ according to a platform’s unique culture and vernacular affordances. This paper explores how journalists have mediated aspects of Instagram’s unique visual cultures within their professional journalism practices. It argues journalists develop representations of their professional identity and role using media…
Reconsidering Innovation
The term “innovation” carries a large burden in journalism. It has been weighted with both the promise and expectation that new technologies, actors and practices might finally be the solution to t
Older People's Digital Lives
Drawing from a conceptual framework that problematises and redefines the digital lives of older people aged 65 years and over, this panel explores how older people engage with digital communication tools and skills, and the way this plays out in their everyday lives. Each paper situates older people as experiencing a rich social life integrated with digital technologies and understood in terms of multi-faceted disparities in internet use, skills …
Burning out and turning off
This study explores forms of social media fatigue described by professional journalists, including frustration with the perception of their increased affective labor, dissatisfaction with communication environments on particular social media platforms, and increased anxiety about the possible impact of social media use on both their professional reputations and personal well-being. We argue that these forms of social media fatigue have influenced…
The identity dilemma
An increasing body of media research suggests journalists are struggling to balance their personal and professional identities. This is particularly evident in social media spaces, where regulations from news organizations remain murky and audience expectations for engagement continue to grow. These studies, which relied heavily on content analyses and large-scale surveys, have demonstrated fundamental shifts in the norms journalists use to guide…
Social Media and Journalism Practice
Conclusion
Journalism and Social Media
Shifting Values, New Norms
Journalism and Social Media Audiences
News in Social Media Environments
Big Data, Algorithms and the Metrics of Social Media News
Social Media and the Newsroom
Journalism and Social Media
Burning out and turning off
This study explores forms of social media fatigue described by professional journalists, including frustration with the perception of their increased affective labor, dissatisfaction with communication environments on particular social media platforms, and increased anxiety about the possible impact of social media use on both their professional reputations and personal well-being. We argue that these forms of social media fatigue have influenced…
Don't Tweet This
Journalistic use of social media for sourcing, distribution and promotion of news comes at a time when the newsroom itself can be said to be in a state of 'transition'. Previous research about social media and journalism has focussed on the transition of journalistic practices to the 'social media age', but less attention has been given to the ways in which new workplace relationships might contribute to a social media-enabled newsroom. It is thu…
Journalists on Instagram
Research on journalists’ social media practices has not yet developed clear platform specificity; that is, how these practices might differ according to a platform’s unique culture and vernacular affordances. This paper explores how journalists have mediated aspects of Instagram’s unique visual cultures within their professional journalism practices. It argues journalists develop representations of their professional identity and role using media…
Disconnection
This commentary considers the concept of 'disconnection' as a way to understand practices of contemporary digital journalism while advocating for consideration of disconnection as a necessary component of sustainable journalism
From “Selfies” to Breaking Tweets
The aim of this paper is to analyse the different ways in which journalists negotiate representations of their professional and personal identity on social media platforms. We argue that the differing representations of personal and professional identity on social media correspond to the professional, organisational and institutional tensions that have emerged in this new space. Using qualitative interviews with various journalists and editorial …
Not Their Fault, but Their Problem”
Journalists are increasingly reporting that online harassment has become a common feature of their working lives, contributing to experiences of fatigue, anxiety and disconnection from social media as well as their profession. Drawing on interviews with American newsworkers, this study finds at least three distinct forms of harassment: acute harassment such as generalized verbal abuse, chronic harassment occurring over time and often from the sam…
Journalism and Social Media
Using social media in the news reportage of War & Conflict
Based on interviews with Swiss journalists who specialise in war and international reportage, this article investigates the extent to which social media impacts on reportage of war and conflict. The interviews examine journalists’ perceptions of the threats and opportunities posed by use of social media in reporting conflict, by investigating how journalists position themselves and their practices within this new media ecosystem. In particular, t…
The identity dilemma
An increasing body of media research suggests journalists are struggling to balance their personal and professional identities. This is particularly evident in social media spaces, where regulations from news organizations remain murky and audience expectations for engagement continue to grow. These studies, which relied heavily on content analyses and large-scale surveys, have demonstrated fundamental shifts in the norms journalists use to guide…
Reconsidering Innovation
The term “innovation” carries a large burden in journalism. It has been weighted with both the promise and expectation that new technologies, actors and practices might finally be the solution to t
Mapping the emergence of social media in everyday journalistic practices
While there is much research to describe journalists' use of social media to source and disseminate news about major events and interact with global audiences, there are few studies that focus on journalists' use of social media within everyday news practices. This article uses qualitative surveys to provide a preliminary understanding of how journalists in Australia are utilising social media content in everyday news sourcing and reportage. The …
From Individual Disconnection to Collective Practices for Journalists’ Wellbeing
Journalists are increasingly experiencing the negative consequences of online news transformations, such as trolling and harassment, as well as audience distrust. Despite acute need, intra-organisational efforts to support journalists’ online wellbeing have so far been limited. More recently, research has explored how journalists have turned to individual practices of disconnection, such as blocking, muting, or small breaks from online media to m…
The News Media Bargaining Code
The Australian News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) is the first successful legislative attempt to compel digital platforms to pay news media organisations for third party news content. This paper focuses on the NMBC after its first year to explore whether the Code was successful in meeting one of its publicly stated purposes; supporting public interest journalism. We argue that the Code delivered outcomes that met the ACCC's policy objectives aroun…
Reluctant selfies
This paper explores how older people’s reluctance to engage in social media’s more vernacular practices, such as selfie-taking and sharing, can be attributed to specific social barriers to online inclusion and participation. Drawing on empirical research conducted during social media-oriented digital literacy workshops with older people, we explore how ‘reluctant’ participation was linked to perceptions of social media cultures that did not match…
A war about meaning
Following the 9/11 attacks on the USA, the Howard government introduced extensive amendments to the criminal act within Australia. The Australian mainstream media has been criticized for its ineffective contestation of the controversial legislation, effectively becoming ‘seduced’ by the Howard government's discourses around post-9/11 insecurity. This article examines the representation of the ‘anti-terror laws’ by the Australian government and ma…
A different playbook for the same outcome? Examining Google’s and Meta’s strategic responses to Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code
In March 2021, Australia enacted the News Media Bargaining Code (NMBC) legislation, which compels Google and Meta to pay for third-party news content on their platforms. To date, Australian newsrooms have made deals with both platforms totalling approximately AUD$200 million (US$126.4 million). The 1-year review of the Code has prompted questions about not just the legislation but also the lack of public detail about the deals made between news o…
A war about meaning
Following the 9/11 attacks on the USA, the Howard government introduced extensive amendments to the criminal act within Australia. The Australian mainstream media has been criticized for its ineffective contestation of the controversial legislation, effectively becoming ‘seduced’ by the Howard government's discourses around post-9/11 insecurity. This article examines the representation of the ‘anti-terror laws’ by the Australian government and ma…
Journalism during the Arab Spring
To say that protests occur ‘on the street’ obscures the complexity of the act. While the importance of those people who brave sanction by participating in public demonstrations on the street cannot be diminished, the protest action does not begin and end there. At its heart, a protest is a communicative action; it communicates the protestors’ will in the most vibrant, dynamic and overt way possible. A protest is meant to be seen, heard and witnes…
Social media and the politics of reportage
© Saba Bebawi and Diana Bossio 2014. Social Media and the Politics of Reportage explores the journalistic challenges, issues and opportunities that have risen as a result of social media increasingly being used as a form of crisis reporting within the field of global journalism, with a focus on the protests during the ‘Arab Spring’
ANZCA News
Using social media in the news reportage of War & Conflict
Based on interviews with Swiss journalists who specialise in war and international reportage, this article investigates the extent to which social media impacts on reportage of war and conflict. The interviews examine journalists’ perceptions of the threats and opportunities posed by use of social media in reporting conflict, by investigating how journalists position themselves and their practices within this new media ecosystem. In particular, t…
ANZCA Australian & New Zealand Communication Association News
ANZCA News
ANZCA News
Don't Tweet This
Journalistic use of social media for sourcing, distribution and promotion of news comes at a time when the newsroom itself can be said to be in a state of 'transition'. Previous research about social media and journalism has focussed on the transition of journalistic practices to the 'social media age', but less attention has been given to the ways in which new workplace relationships might contribute to a social media-enabled newsroom. It is thu…
From “Selfies” to Breaking Tweets
The aim of this paper is to analyse the different ways in which journalists negotiate representations of their professional and personal identity on social media platforms. We argue that the differing representations of personal and professional identity on social media correspond to the professional, organisational and institutional tensions that have emerged in this new space. Using qualitative interviews with various journalists and editorial …
Mapping the emergence of social media in everyday journalistic practices
While there is much research to describe journalists' use of social media to source and disseminate news about major events and interact with global audiences, there are few studies that focus on journalists' use of social media within everyday news practices. This article uses qualitative surveys to provide a preliminary understanding of how journalists in Australia are utilising social media content in everyday news sourcing and reportage. The …
Social Media and Journalism Practice
Conclusion
Journalism and Social Media
Shifting Values, New Norms
Journalism and Social Media Audiences
News in Social Media Environments
Big Data, Algorithms and the Metrics of Social Media News
Social Media and the Newsroom
Journalism and Social Media
The identity dilemma
An increasing body of media research suggests journalists are struggling to balance their personal and professional identities. This is particularly evident in social media spaces, where regulations from news organizations remain murky and audience expectations for engagement continue to grow. These studies, which relied heavily on content analyses and large-scale surveys, have demonstrated fundamental shifts in the norms journalists use to guide…
Burning out and turning off
This study explores forms of social media fatigue described by professional journalists, including frustration with the perception of their increased affective labor, dissatisfaction with communication environments on particular social media platforms, and increased anxiety about the possible impact of social media use on both their professional reputations and personal well-being. We argue that these forms of social media fatigue have influenced…
Older People's Digital Lives
Drawing from a conceptual framework that problematises and redefines the digital lives of older people aged 65 years and over, this panel explores how older people engage with digital communication tools and skills, and the way this plays out in their everyday lives. Each paper situates older people as experiencing a rich social life integrated with digital technologies and understood in terms of multi-faceted disparities in internet use, skills …
Not Their Fault, but Their Problem”
Journalists are increasingly reporting that online harassment has become a common feature of their working lives, contributing to experiences of fatigue, anxiety and disconnection from social media as well as their profession. Drawing on interviews with American newsworkers, this study finds at least three distinct forms of harassment: acute harassment such as generalized verbal abuse, chronic harassment occurring over time and often from the sam…
Not that old person
One of the issues limiting prevention of elder abuse in Australia is lack of a strong evidence base to target social drivers of abuse, particularly ageism. This evidence gap is exacerbated by social discourses that perpetuate negative representations of older age as a time of vulnerability and physical decline, often in opposition to people’s actual experience of ageing. This article presents findings of the ‘OPERA Project’, which used co-designe…
Political science (34 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Media studies (24 works) · Media Studies and Communication (23 works) · Public relations (20 works) · Social media (20 works) · Journalism (19 works) · Social Media and Politics (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Law (12 works)